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: Our Sale is Still Going On.
Have You Visited Our Well Filled Store This Fall?
♦ If you have not you have cheated yourself—that’s all.
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We have an especial strong line of knit goods, which are very popular just at
present, including gloves, baby hoods, sacques, shawls, facinators, pony coats, Nor¬
♦ folk coats, and sweaters, which we are offering at
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♦ Reduced Prices.
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♦ We still have some attractive coats for Ladier, Misses and Children. Don’t fail
♦ to in and them and get prices.
♦ come see our
♦ We Want Your Cotton, Syrup and
♦ Produce.
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Everett Mercantile Co.
i Pelham, Georgia.
Cooking With Sunlight.
Suu cooking—roasting and boiling by
sunlight Instead of coal or gas—has
been going on for 300 years. There
are sun stoves that roast a sirloin or
boil a soup to perfection. They are
only used, however, by scientists. A
suu stove consists mainly of a mirror—
a spherical mirror on a joint. There
Is also a reflector. The place for pot
or plate Is so situated that the mirror’s
rays cau he focused on it accurately.
A Herman, Baron Tehernliausen, was
the first sun cook, lie began In 1087
to boll water, and in 1GSS he had very
good success at baking eggs. Sir John
Horsehel and l*>utfton are other fa
mous names associated with suu cook¬
ing. In California various sun cooks
have boiled a gallon of water in twen¬
ty minutes, roasted meat iu two hour
and poached eggs iu fifteen minutes—
quite as good time as the ordinary fire
makes. An odd thing about meat
roasted by suu rays Is that it has an
unpleasant taste. This Is avoided by
the insertion of a plate of yellow glass
between meat and mirror. In all solar
stoves the sheet of yellow glass fig¬
ures.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Queer English Laws.
“No statute law of England ever can
be obsolete,” a legal journal says.
“Once enacted, it continues in binding
force until repealed."
If such be really the case, there
ought to be some lively times ahead
for several classes of the community.
For instance, what will builders have
to say to the act which penalizes any
person who erects a house without at¬
taching to it at least four acres of
land? This was one of “good Queen
Bess’ ” laws, and It has most certainly
never been repealed.
By another unrepealed statute, which
dates back to the first year of King
James I„ It is euaeted that not more
than a penny may be charged for a
quart of the best old ale nor more than
a halfpenny for a like quantity of
small beer. The penalty for each in¬
fraction of the act is 20 shillings, so
that if It were rigidly enforced it
would not need, apparently, a licensing
bill to ruin the brewers. Then, again,
a Catholic owning a horse is still legal¬
ly obliged to sell it for £5 to anybody
who chooses to offer that sum for it.—
London Graphic.
The First Mourning Paper.
The oldest known letter written on
black edged note paper as a sign of
mourning appears to be one dated Jau.
5, 1683. In Addison’s comedy of “The
Drummer,” 1715, reference is made to
the fashion iu the words. **Mv lady's
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mourning paper that is blacked at ftiin- the
edges." A few years later Allan
say, who died in 1738. speaks in one
of his poems of “the sable bordered
sheet" as a messenger of sorrow,
Mann, writing from Italy to Horace
Walpole iu 1745, says that it was uni
versally used In Florence at that time.
The superior elegance of this Italian
note paper, with its narrow margin of
black, explains its ready acceptance In
this country, where it superseded the
juarto sheet with a black border some
rimes a quarter of an inch wide. In
tills way it probably gave an impetus
to the fashion. But it is a mistake to
suppose, as some have done, that the
fashion was introduced from Italy.—
London Answers.
Caught Alive.
A New Yorker, a big game hunter
of many years’ experience, was lion
shooting in Uganda. He had excel¬
lent luck. Nearly every day he posed
In a complacent attitude beside a
freshly killed lion, and his photog¬
rapher snapped him for the maga¬
zines.
One afternoon the photographer,
who was taking a nap in the hut, was
awakened by a loud noise. He rose
and looked out. Sprinting toward him
j from tails flying, 1*1° Jungle, hat his chief, gone and and, coat
j came with
terrible roars and growls, a huge lion
bounded at his lieels.
The photographer gazed spellbound
at the strange and exciting picture.
His chief, perceiving him, shouted:
“Quick, quick! Open the door.
George! I’m bringing him home
alive!”—Washington Star.
Spoiling a Tragedy.
“If you don’t marry me,” he said des¬
perately, “I shall kill myself.”
“And write a note telling all about
it?" queried the maid.
“Yes."
“And hold my photograph in you>
other hand?"
“I had thought about it.”
“Well, just wait a minute,” she said,
“and I’ll borrow pa’s pistol for you.
My, but won’t it be romantic?”
But he faded.
The Head of the House.
It is folly to call the husband the
head of the house; he is not. It is but
a courtesy title at best, since in trutt
he is but an incident iu the home life,
while the wife and mother is its whole
existence. Literally the sun of do¬
mestic happiness rises and sets in the
* a of the wife and mother.—Clara
i£orr:s iu Housekeeper.
,4ot an Advertiser.
you hang up any mistletoe las'
Corks unas?" asked Erastns PinklSy.
“ ’Deed 1 didn't," answered Miss
Miami Brown. “Us got a little too
moot f ride to advertise foh de ordinary
courtesies dat a Sady has a right to
expect."-—Exchange.
Suspicious.
Widow fat washtub)— Are you posi¬
tive you love me?
Suitor—Of course I am.
Widow—What’s the matter? You
haven't lost your job, have you?—
Pittsburg Press.
Too much Is worse than want.- -Ger
man Proverb.
Hairs and Feathers.
Hairs are found on almost every
thing that grows, and, if we may so
call the flue fibers of asbestus, they
even invade the mineral world. From
a piece of mineral asbestus quarried
from the earth and looking like a stone
with a satiny fracture the silken fibers
can be rubbed with the finger till the
lump is worn away.
Secure a feather somewhere—it will
be much better than a picture—and
you will see that it has a main stem
or midrib. Along each side of this ex
tends the thin part known as the vane.
Look closely and you will see that this
vane is composed of tiny feathers, call¬
ed beards, fastened together through¬
out their whole* length from where
their bases join the midrib to their
tips. You cau easily separate one of
these from the rest, when you will see
how like a tiny feather it is, with what
seems a fine fuzziness along each edge.
—St. Nicholas.
Astronomy.
if there were any money to be made
j in astronomy everybody would be
studying it. About all we cau see is
figures, and these are so big that they
stagger the understanding. Every child
in the United States knows how to find
the north star (Old Polaris) from the
pointers of the dipper, but no child
can appreciate the statement that this
star is distant from the earth 210.000,
000,000,000 miles—two hundred and ten
trillions! The Twentieth Century Lim¬
ited, traveling at one mile a minute,
would have to run without stopping
for 470.000.000 years in order to trav¬
erse this distance. If light really
travels 187.500 miles a second, a ray
ff.im the north star would be thirty
six years iu reaching the earth.—New
York Press.
COIMNO
BIG STREET FAIR And CARNIVAL
ALL I
Next Week, Beginning Monday
DECEMBER 7 TO 12
Pelham, Georgia.
The Maryland Amusement Company
Will Furnish The Attractions.
Big Electric Show and a Minestral Show and Many
Others. Merry-Go-Round and Ferris Wheel.
2 SENSATIONAL FREE ACTS.
Prof. Selzer in his Great Arrial act Twice Daily.
Speedy the High Diver, will jump from the 40 foot
Ladder Twice Daily.
The Music Will be Furnished by a
Famous Royal Italion Band.
This Company Never Closes.
All Shows Stricly High Class. Come out
And Enjoy ¥onrself.
6 Big Days and Nights 6
Remember the Date, December 7 to 12